Tony Mazz: Unanimous league MVP & Coach of the Year are all but done
 

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Mazz checks in, letting us know he still doesn't know much about football, but does know an awful lot about filling articles with rhetorical questions.

Haters going to hate, I suppose. Just seems rather absurd to question whether we're seeing the "twilight" of Brady's and Belichick's careers given they were both named as the best at the position this past season. I understand it's about the ring - and that this means nothing because of our failure in the playoffs, but it certainly indicates that both are still able to be at the top of their game over the long haul of a season.

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And now he has something to fill air time with on his show today. People will call and bash him and the four hours will just fly by.

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Thank you for the link, it was nice to get a refresher on why I stopped reading Boston.com.

You know, even if we are in the twilight of the Brady/Belichick Era; it's been a hell of a ride and pretty damn enjoyable.

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Reason #101 why I rarely if ever listen to the train wreck on 98.5 FM.

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This.

That's my real problem with the sentiment.

It's one thing to suggest that Brady has a finite number of years left in his career. That much is clear and obvious to anyone. But to suggest that we've entered the "twilight?" His last season was one of the best ever put together by a QB.

And as for Belichick - anyone who can look at the Pats season last year, a 14-2 season with a young, flawed defense missing key veteran starters, and not think he has his A game is not watching the same team I'm watching.

Yes. They won't last forever. But the quality of production out of the two has shown no signs of letting up. If anything, you could argue that Brady is playing QB better now than he has at any point in his career.

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These articles are written for the sole purpose of stirring up the faithful.

Although I have to say, only in Boston are the local media so frivolously negative about successful home teams. Here in DC, they complain about the Redskins a lot, but it's nothing like the entitled b**ching that goes on in NE (and the Redskins legitimately suck). The writers in NE are like an annoying six year old little brother--they try to piss you off just because they can get attention for it.

Twilight of an era? We just posted our best regular season in four years. Our team is full of young players with talent. If you think we're in the "twilight," you've either been absent for a few years, or you're just an ***hole trying to provoke people into reading your articles because you aren't good enough to attract readers any other way.

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I suspect that BB will coach the Patriots for much longer than we imagine. It wouldn't surprise me to see him go 'til he's 65, another seven years. He's a coach and loves it. What else would he rather do?

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Well, he did say he doesn't see himself coaching 25 years from now (which would make him about as old as JoePa is now).

And, of course, Michael Lombardi thinks he could easily coach for another decade.

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Mazz is just peissed off that the Red Sox are going to get pushed to the back burner for the next month and his level of adding to his show will be consisting of "Mike, you're right." Mazz just loves to peiss off the Patriots fans in print.

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I think there's truth to this. I will give Mazz a ton of credit for getting into the B's the last couple years and becoming at least somewhat knowledgeable on the subject - that's not easy. He has not made such an effort on football. I actually like Mazz on the show, in general - he's a nice foil to Felger's DBaggery. For anything other than football, that is.